Facebook has taken “credit” for planting stories around the web which bring into question Google’s privacy policies. The plot backfired however when the Google hired PR firm Burson-Marsteller tried to get a prominent blogger to post the negative information and that blogger posted the emails from the PR firm.

Chris Soghoian, the blogger who was approached by Burson posted the following email from the company:

“Google, as you know, has a well-known history of infringing on the privacy rights of America’s Internet users. Not a year has gone by since the founding of the company where it has not been the focus of front-page news detailing its zealous approach to gathering information -– in many cases private and identifiable information — about online users.”